Afternoon Delight: ‘Your Main Thing’

It’s Thursday. Which means it’s almost Friday. Which means you can probably get away with slacking a bit during your lunch hour. If you’re in need of something short and sweet to watch at your desk, we have you covered with some Afternoon Delight. This week’s pick is the brand spankin’ new web series, Your Main Thing, starring comedian John Early.

Early, who you may recognize from Above Average’s red carpet crashes as well as stoner-friendly Vimeo Original High Maintenance, plays the disgraced former child star turned self-help guru Shayne McGrath. In an effort to revamp his image, Shayne is pushed by his publicist (the show’s creator Jill Pangallo) to a retreat in the Poconos with his five (yup, only five) obsessive fans, who are desperate to find their “main thing” to succeed in life. Over the course of ten episodes, the group’s mock-Celebrity Rehab shenanigans are documented as they get in touch with Shayne, nature, and themselves.

Early, a rising web presence, is laugh-out-loud funny as the washed-up Shayne, who’s life and appearance are reminiscent of Aaron Carter types (or just Aaron Carter) — refusing to venture out on a different career path and desperately holding on to the glory days despite pop culture leaving them in the dust. Unlike Aaron Carter, however, don’t count out Shayne just yet: he’s got a pocket full of Adderall, a promising fedora collection, the most loyal handful of fans on the planet to help him reboot his image, and he’s stopping at nothing.

Get to know John Early before the rest of the world does and stream the entire series on findyourmainthing.com. Here’s the first episode to get you started.